Mailer's career has spanned several occupations, including acting, directing, voice performance, and teaching acting classes. He taught for the American Film Institute and campaigned along with several other actors for greater opportunities for older actors in Hollywood. Mailer was a classmate of Desilu casting director Joseph D'Agosta, who got him his first acting jobs in The Lucy Show and Star Trek.[1]

Beginning in the '80s, Mailer concentrated more into his voice work and provided background voices and voice-overs for films such as the thriller The Seventh Sign (1988), the drama Avalon (1990, with Ronald Guttman), the crime drama Mobsters (1991, starring Christian Slater, F. Murray Abraham, and Seymour Cassel), the animated An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991, with the voice of Nehemiah Persoff), the science fiction thriller RoboCop 3 (1993), the comedy The Flintstones (1994), the science fiction blockbuster Stargate (1994, with Leon Rippy and Erick Avari), the action sequel Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995), Roland Emmerich's blockbuster Independence Day (1996, with Brent Spiner), the television drama Lansky (1999), and the comedy Keeping the Faith (2000).

Since 2000 he has retired from the "in front of the camera" acting and taught several acting classes in Minnesota like Cynthia Uhrich.

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